Oil Supply Crisis; Contents; List of Figures and Tables; Abbreviations; Preface; Chapter 1 Introduction; Oil: A Critical Commodity; Oil Crises: Is There a Risk?; Oil Crises and International Cooperation; A Dearth of Scholarship; The Theoretical Dilemma; The Empirical Conundrum; Oil Prices: Why Do We Care?; The Method of Structured, Focused Comparison; Chapter 2 The Theoretical Debate; Defining Cooperation; The Debate; International Institutions; Institutions in the Oil Issue-Area; The Security versus Economy Debate; The Role of the Leader; Conclusion; Chapter 3 The Suez Crisis. Crisis BackgroundThe Oil Problem; The United States; The Organization for European Economic Cooperation; The Oil Committee; Conclusion; Chapter 4 The Oil Embargo-Europe "Weakened and Humiliated"; Crisis Background; The Oil Embargo; The United States; European Discord; International Cooperation: The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development and the European Community; The Role of the International Oil Companies; Conclusion; Chapter 5 The Energy Crisis Is the "Moral Equivalent of War"; Crisis Background; The Oil Shortage; The United States. International Cooperation: The International Energy Agency, the European Community and the Tokyo SummitConclusion; Chapter 6 The Rest of the Cases; The Abadan Crisis; The Six-Day War; The Iran-Iraq War; The First Gulf War; Hurricane Katrina; Small Crises: Conclusion; Chapter 7 Oil Crises and Inter-state Cooperation: Is It Possible?; So Who Is the Winner?; Theoretical Implications; Policy Implications; What Does the Future Hold?; Concluding Thoughts; Bibliography; Index; About the Author.